7 Common Sports Injuries – Know the Causes & Treatment

To stay fit, follow healthy lifestyle, and practice a particular exercise regime is always preferable for individuals. However, anything in excess, practiced without an expert trainer, and accidental misfortune can lead to injuries ranging from simple to grave.

Generally trauma, fractures, sports injuries, is a matter of concerns; as they can cause devastation of your normal life. So, undoubtedly exercise or physical activities are good for you, but be careful of injury while playing sports or practicing exercise.

Some common causes of Sports Injuries:

• Accidents & Carelessness
  
• Poor training schedule or practice
  
• Improper gear
  
• Due to over-weight, body shape, & haste
  
• Excessive physical exhaustion (not following a balanced regime)
  
• Without warming up for physical activities
  
• Over stretching or injuries due to faulty method
  
• Collision or hit
  
• Long time exposure to extreme physical workout or sports
  
• Little rest and irrational involvement in activities

Therefore, splinting and casting sometimes become choice of treatment, making out for the injuries. Let’s take a sneak peek into common sports injuries and fatal cases.

7 Common Sports Injuries:

• Ankle Sprain
  
• Groin Pull
  
• Hamstring Strain
  
• Shin Splints
  
• Knee Injury: ACL Tear
  
• Knee injury: Patellofemoral Syndrome
  
• Tennis Elbow

These are seven sports injuries, which can make a sportsman out of action for months. For ordinary people who are not sportsman, can impact their normal lifestyle, day to day work, and professional as well as personal life. Sports injuries like ligament tear, tennis elbow Patellofemoral syndrome can have devastating affect over your career, emotional well-being, physical stress, and depression. Surgeries to include closed reductions, pinning’s, external and internal fixation does solve such complications of injuries, and give hope for reclaiming quality life.
Treatment for Sports Injuries at Corpus Christi Joint and Bone Orthopedics:

• PRICE therapy, its common therapy for mild sprains, strains, pain management, and minor injuries. PRICE stands for “protection, rest, ice, compression, and elevation”.
  
  In this process “the injured area is protected by a support, maximum rest is advised, physical activities are restricted, ice pack is applied for instigating ice burn to minimize swelling or any other pain, compression is used to limit the swelling or injury, and at last elevation hints at keeping the injured body part placed above head.
  
  However, PRICE therapy should be recommended by a medical professional, as every injury is not treatable or manageable through PRICE.
  
• Pain killer is administered by doctor to control the intense and unbearable pain.
  
• Immobilization, like slings, splinting and casting is used for giving support and less movement of injured arms, shoulders, wrists and legs while you heal.
  
• Physiotherapy, process like “massage, exercises, therapies to improve motion, and strengthen of muscles aims at returning back of normal body function.
  
• Corticosteroid injections can also be administered for dealing with severe pain management.
  
• Surgery and procedures like internal fixation, external pinning’s, reductions, plates, rods, realignment, and repairing of torn ligaments are last retort.

At the end, only the best medication, therapy, advice, and surgery will see you come back to normal life. The post-surgery advice from “Corpus Christi Joint and Bone Orthopedics” will be of much help in recovering fast.